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French luxury preens on website in China
PARIS (AFP) - France's creme de la creme luxury firms, hit by a drop in sales on traditional markets, on Thursday launched a China charm offensive, with a 3D website that gives a peek at the best France has to offer.
Nations:France China Activities:China Wealth Gap Source:(AFP)
2009-10-29
What crisis? China's billionaires live it up
BEIJING (AFP) - While the rest of the world struggles to bounce back from the global financial crisis, China's billionaires are living large, snapping up luxury products at a breathtaking pace.
Nations:China Activities:China Wealth Gap Source:(AFP)
2009-10-28
China's super-rich bounce back from financial crisis
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's super-rich have bounced back from the financial crisis with a vengeance, and China now has more known dollar billionaires than any other country bar the United States, according to a new report released on Tuesday.
Nations:China India Russia People:Warren Buffett Yao Ming Deng Xiaoping Activities:China Wealth Gap Source:(Reuters)
2009-10-13
China's income gap widens as economy slows
SHANGHAI, China - The long-standing, politically sensitive wealth gap between China's citydwellers and its farmers is widening as the economy slows, foiling pledges by its communist leaders to help the countryside catch up.
Nations:China Activities:China Wealth Gap Source:(AP)
2009-01-18
Six lives in a new China
China has been transformed beyond recognition since the ruling Communist party decided 30 years ago this week to abandon Maoism, build a market economy, and dismantle the "bamboo curtain" that had isolated the country from most of the world. This series explores what "reform and opening" has meant to the everyday lives of six individuals.
Nations:China People:Deng Xiaoping Activities:China Wealth Gap China Economic Reform Source:(Christian Science Monitor)
2008-12-18
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